[Gllug] Penguins - traitors the lot of them

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 17:09 +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:05:42PM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:17 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> > > Driving westwards along the elevated M4 this morning, there is a large
> > > billboard as part of the 
> > > "Windows - Life Without Walls" campaign. Depicting several LCD screens
> > > of various sizes, with, yes,
> > > cure scenes of penguins on each.
> > 
> > There is an ad MS have been running showing a line of penguins jumping
> > into the sea. I've been very tempted to make up something with a
> > transparent background and a Tux on it with a speech bubble like "Yes,
> > Linux really is better. Jump right in!" ;)
> 
> Regard it all as indication that, in spite of what it says publically, MS is really
> worried that Linux will eat its lunch.
> 
> Perhaps we should send Ballmer a plate of herrings :-)

8-)  My friend in Redmond tells me that MS are VERY worried about some
of the recent distros.  The current Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu and so on
all make Vista look very slow and old-fashioned...

C.

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